so here was the other thing that totally skipped my mind.

the second rat that we purchased was found dead yesterday in her cage. i have no idea why, she didn’t seem sick, she was the happy hyper rat that was running all over the place. very friendly, very social with us both, and then bam. dead. nancy is still alive and fine, but i have no clue what killed sid so i’m worried that nancy will end up with the same fate i never even got a photo of sid…

yeah i jumped the bandwagon. whee look at me go…

anyway here. click

not much else to say, blah.. need to find something to update with.

i woke up today feeling like my eyes were going to pop out of my head. ugh.

i have a horrible cold and i ended up leaving work early today because of it. my ears are stopped up and when you work at a call center it kinda makes it hard to hear the customers lol so i came home and i feel like hell on a stick.

spent some nice quality time with my rat children. fed them broccoli and chased them around their cage with my hand. they are still getting used to me so they hide but at least they aren’t biting.

tomorrow i am going (if i feel better) to the city with the roomie to buy hippy food at the natural foods store, also going to check out some clothes and spend some of my hard earned cash at the mall. yay! hopefully i’m feeling better by then.

now that i’m done seething over bullshit at work. lets see what else has been happening.

well firstly, my roomie bought us a rat! we named it willard and it is very cute. then we realized willard is a girl lol.

after reading some info on a great website for rats, we realized we didn’t have the proper stuff to care for a rat. for one, rats dislike being alone so we got another rat today, also the correct bedding and the correct food. the girl at the pet store that had original sold “willard” to my roomie had told her we could use what ever a hampster uses (we’d had one of those previously) however that is totally not true and infact we could have killed the poor thing that way

so we found out willard was a female, and renamed her nancy. we named the other rat sid hehe

also our heat has been out for the past week and that sucks! living in the mountains in va is kinda cold… so we were freezing for a week. one of my roomie’s birds died because of it

the people finally came and fixed it today, it’s nice to finally have heat!

i have no idea what else to talk about so… until next time

so this post is ranty, and i want to start out by explaining first off, i have problems with ocd (obsessive compulsive disorder). i have routine ocd, which means i go to work, eat, and sleep, at the same times every night with little or no variation ever. it also means that if the routine is thrown out of wack for some reason, i get nervous, break down, cry, or have a panic attack if it’s bad enough. i also have mild problems with organization and i tend to have to have everything in an order that only i can understand.

now, that being said, lets get to the immaturity.

the people in my area of the call center have a deal with me that if they are sitting in my seat when i come in, they will move to another seat so that i can have my cubicle. however, we do have a hotseating policy, which means that we pretty much just sit where we can find a seat. but like i said, my group has a deal, and we co-exist fine.

there are these women who i guess don’t know that, and when they saw a guy get out of my chair, they started to harass me. calling me a baby, telling me i wasn’t special, that i was spoiled and that i needed to learn the rules and didn’t i know what hot seating was, etc.

so i explained to them, that i have ocd, and that we have a deal in this area. i was very calm but they became more angry at that, and continued to bombard me with insults.

i took the problem to a team lead (floor manager) and she said she would sort things out. so i went to work, she spoke to them, and i thought it was taken care of.

the next day i come in to work, sit at my desk and note immediately that they have rearranged every paper on my desk, moved my phone, hidden some items under my desk and just caused general disaray. they then laughed at me while i reorganized my desk.

again i spoke to a team lead, and assumed it was taken care of.

saturday everything was fine, i had no problems and nothing was messed with. i figured the problem was taken care of.

today i come to work, and one of the women is sitting at my desk, she has removed my papers from the cubicle wall, and replaced them with her own, she had no reason to sit at my desk, as she comes in very early during the morning hours and has first pick of any desk she wants, so she sat there deliberately.

i spoke to upper management this time, and the HR department. they took all 3 of the women into their office and spoke to them with both the boss and the manager below him. team leads were alerted and the situation was finally resolved (or so i hope.)

i am so disgusted at these women. this is something you do in highschool, elementary school, not a workplace. and not when you are 40 and 50+ years old! yes that’s right these women were old enough to be my mother! and here they were harassing me, and over what? a cubicle, and my mental disabilities.

picking on someone with ocd is just as bad as kicking a wheel chair out from under a paralyzed person. they can’t help that their legs are not functioning, and i can’t help that my brain causes me to panic when things aren’t in order.

anyway, i hope this is all resolved, and that tomorrow i don’t have more bullshit to deal with. i’m about at the end of my rope here.

every year my valentine’s day sucks total ass, and this year was no exception to that rule.

last year i was stuck with no power and no valentine.

the year before we thought my dad was going to die…

this year i’m stuck at work, and i can’t even spend any sort of time with my boyfriend which is realy irritating me.

everyone around me has flowers on their desks, and my desk has one card, from my best friend, who just wrote “sorry you had to work on v-day”.

i want that romantic expression of love and adoration that everyone else gets. yes i know that is selfish. i should be lucky to have what i have, and i do believe that i am lucky but still, it’s kinda depressing to sit and watch everyone else get flowers and pass them around for everyone to see and i get nothing. meh.

i hate being so seperated… i wish i could just spend all my time looking at him. instead of staring at this stupid computer and talking on the phone to idiots who shouldn’t own things they can’t understand how to work.

that is the only appropriate title i could come up with for today.

my day started great, woke up to lucas calling me, wishing me a good morning, and then making kissy noises for like.. 30 minutes at me. *sigh* love him…

then i get here, and it’s back to back calls again. AND they decided to put an xm corporate person on a y-jack with me. which means she was plugged into a splitter that let her hear what i was doing on my calls. made me very nervous. she also doesn’t understand the idea of personal space, because she was right up on me so close she was kicking me when she would cross her legs 8(

also when i go to check blogs i find that jenn’s blog is having troubles, AND elyse’s blog seems to have been turned into a spam site ?!?!?! WHERE IS MY ELYSE!!!???!?!??!!

anyway so i’m pretty stressed out bleh. and it’s still back to back calls so i have to go and take some now 8(

you know, if it wasn’t for taking all the stressful calls here, this job wouldn’t be so bad.

the people i’ve met here are really cool. some of them i already knew from past things like old local concerts, or i went to school with them. but the new people that i never met previously have been very interesting.

we have one guy that is in his 40′s. reminds me of my dad. tells us stories about crazy stuff from his younger days and always tells really funny jokes. there was one man who used to tell us about when he was in punk bands in the early 80′s late 70′s. that guy is pretty cool as well. some of the people here recognize me from my days at hacker house, which kinda makes me just the tiniest bit popular. *makes finger gesture* tiny tiny bit.

however the freaking callers are driving me nuts, as well as the company it’sself.

in other news,
i’ve finally talked lucas into playing wow with me, which will be awesome cause his best friend plays it too. we’re all going to get on the same server and make fresh characters and run around together whee! now i just gotta find a server.

blah anyway here’s some fun photos from work behind the jump
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